Sign.



G. E. MORAY.

SIGN.

APPLICATION FILED-JUNE 11,1908.

918,888. I I Patented Apr. 20, 1909.

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GEORGE EDWARD MORAY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 20, 1909.

Application filed June 11, 1908. Serial No. 437,909.

to signs, and the object of the invention is to provide a device of this general character of a simple and comparatively inexpensive nature, and of strong and compact construction, which shall be adapted to display in an attractive and inexpensive manner announcements produced upon panels interchangeable relatively to the frame of the sign, and to provide means for the illumination of the inserted panels, which means are concealed, thus preventing the illuminating factors from detracting from the subject matter of the panels carried by the frame of the sign.

The invention consists in certain novel features of the construction, and combinations and arrangements of the several parts of the improved sign, whereby certain im portant advantages are attained, and the device is rendered simpler, less expensive and otherwise better adapted and more convenient for use, all as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

In the drawings, which serve to illustrate my invention, I have shown my improve ments embodied in a sign wherein the frame or body portion is made in the form of an index hand of skeleton construction, and the illuminating mediums concealed in a hood that represents a cuff accompanying the index hand. But although my present inven tion is well adapted for use in the precise manner shown in the drawings, I do not desire to be understood as limiting myself to the particular construction shown except as defined in the a ended claims, since the invention is capafil e of use in connection with analogous constructions or signs of different formations, and certain features of the invention may be applied to other devices or apparatuses to obtain practically the same results.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved sign; Fig. 2 is a section through what has been termed the hood section of the sign, the section being taken practically on the line 22 of Fig. 3; Fig. 3 is a vertical section that is taken through the frame of the sign at a point slightly in advance of the aforesaid hood section. Fig. 4 is a horizontal section through the hood section portion of the device, being taken substantially on the line 44 of Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is a detail longitudinal section through a portion of the frame that receives an announcing panel, the section being taken practically on the line 55 of Fig. 6; and Fig. 6 is a vertical section taken at a point indicated by the line 6 6 of Fig. 5. i As shown in these views, the frame A of the sign is made in the form of an index hand, but While this formation is preferred, I do not confine myself to the same. In the construction of this frame, I em loy a tube, for example, a gas pipe, proper y bent to give the desired contour to the frame, which is actually the body portion of the sign. Therefore, the frame or body of the sign is of skeleton construction, and the tubular part that is bent to produce the frame is designated in the drawings by the numeral 10. In the further formation of the frame or body A, as herein shown, I employ parallel tubular members 11 that are longitudinally located in the said frame A, one member 11. being at each side of its center and at predetermined distance apart. These intermediate members 11 are provided at their opposing faces with longitudinal slots 12,. and one end of each intermediate member 11 is secured directly to the frame A in any suitable or approved manner. The opposite ends of the said members 11, which are receptive and guide members are curved in opposite directions, as is illustrated at 14 in Figs. 2 and 5.

In connection with the aforesaid I have shown the sign provided with a rounded hood or casing B, which, when. the body of the sign is in the formation of an index hand, is in the form of a cuff. That portion of the hood B that faces the frame or body A of the sign, is open, as is illustrated at 15, particularly in Fig. 2. What may be termed the outer end face of the hood B is closed,- as is shown, at 16 in Figs. 1, 2 and 3; but the closed portion 16 is provided with a slot 17 through which an announcing panel 18 may be introduced and slid into the slide ways 12 formed in the intermediate members 11 of the frame or body of the sign, heretofore referred to, as is illustrated in Figs. 1 and 6 in full lines, and in Fig. 5 in dotted lines.

The panels 18 are interchangeable that is to say, panels bearing different announcements may be introduced in the body or frame A of the sign, at pleasure, and these panels 18 may be transparent or they may be semitransparent, or opa ue, as desired.

The frame or bod y A of the sign may be supported in any convenient manner as, for example, by means of rods, as shown at 19 upon the drawings, such rods being engaged vith the outer and inner ends of the frame, and being adapted for attachment to a building or other support, the outer and inner ends of the frame or body A being provided with ring couplings 2O wherewith such rods may be conveniently engaged in a Well known way.

The curved outer ends li of the intermediate members 11 of the body of the sign are attached to the members 10 of said body or frame A, as shown in Fig. 2, the connection being made in any suitable manner. And the aforesaid upper and lower members 10, 10 of the body or frame A of the sign, are connected by branch members 23, as is illustrated in Fig. 4, 'with vertical members 22 and 22 extending dorm, one at each side of the aforesaid opening 1.7, being attached to the closed portion 16 of the hood B in any suitable or approved manner. The said members 22 and 22 and the branch members 23 are tubular since the members 22 and 22 are adapted to have electric light bulbs 21 and 21* or other illuminating mediums attached thereto by sockets or otherwise, and the wiring to the said. electric bulbs, when such are employed, may be made to enter the upper portion or member of the frame or body, as is shown at 24, and may be carried through the said frame or body and the connecting members supporting the lights, and out at a point adjacent to that at which the wire enters, as is illustrated in Fig. 1.

When a sign is constructed, as has been described, it offers comparatively little resistance to the wind, and furthermore, the panel containing an announcement or announcements may be changed at pleasure, and conveniently and quickly brought into a position for display or removal from the body of the sign, and the illuminating mediums employed are concealed Within the hood B,yet they occupy such a position as to cause the rays of light therefrom to be directed in an effective manner to the faces of the panel 18 in the body of the sign, and to that end, a reflector a is located at the rear of the illuminating mediums, which reflector may be of any desired character.

The sign described is simple, durable, economic, and well adapted for the purposes intended.

I desire to be understood that instead of an actual reflector being employed, the substantially closed end of the hood :an be so painted that the painted surface in itself will act as a reflector.

lfhat I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

' 1. A sign having a frame provided with guide members comprising slotted tubes supported in parallel spaced relation, a hood at one end of the guide members, a removable announcement panel insertible through the hood and slidab y engaged with said guide members, and illuminating means within said hood.

2. A sign having a frame provided with guide men'ibers supported in parallel sauteed relation, a hood at one end of the guide members, and. open where it faces the guide members and apertured at its opposite side, a removable announcement; panel insertihle at the apertured side of the hood and. slidably engaged nith said guide members, and illuminating means within said hood.

3. A sign having a frame provided with guide members supported in parallel spaced relation and provided s ith longitmlinal guide ays produced in their adjacent sides, a hood at one end of the guide members and open at its side adjacent thereto, and having at its opposite side a slot the opposite ends of which are alined n ith said. guide members, a removable announcement panel imiertilr-le at the slot in the hood and having its opposite edge portions slidably engaged in the guide s of said guide members, and illuminating means within the hood.

In witness whereof I. have hereunto signed my na me in the presence of too subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE EDMU RD MURAY.

rlitnesses:

J. Finn) Acnmr, Morons FLOREA 

